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Eclipse effects in the atmospheric boundary layer

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The influence of a solar eclipse on solar-radiation fluxes, meteorological parameters, turbulence characteristics, and vertical temperature profiles in the atmospheric boundary layer is analyzed. Air-temperature variations caused by an eclipse and time delays of these variations with respect to the onset of the total-eclipse phase in the atmospheric surface and boundary layers are determined. The influence of a solar eclipse on the turbulent kinetic energy, turbulent heat flux, and variance and spectral density of the power of air-temperature pulsations are estimated. Variations in aerosol parameters and concentrations of light ions during a total solar eclipse are discussed.

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  1. Oboukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pyzhevskii per. 3, Moscow, 119017, Russia

    G. I. Gorchakov, A. A. Isakov, A. V. Karpov & V. M. Kopeikin

  2. Central Aerological Observatory, Pervomaiskaya ul. 3, Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow oblast, 141700, Russia

    E. N. Kadygrov & E. A. Miller

  3. FGU Pyatigorsk State Research Institute of Roszdrav Health Resort Treatment, pr. Kirova 30, Pyatigorsk, 357500, Russia

    Z. V. Kortunova

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  1. G. I. Gorchakov
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Original Russian Text © G.I. Gorchakov, E.N. Kadygrov, Z.V. Kortunova, A.A. Isakov, A.V. Karpov, V.M. Kopeikin, E.A. Miller, 2008, published in Izvestiya AN. Fizika Atmosfery i Okeana, 2008, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 104–111.

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Gorchakov, G.I., Kadygrov, E.N., Kortunova, Z.V. et al. Eclipse effects in the atmospheric boundary layer. Izv. Atmos. Ocean. Phys. 44, 100–106 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001433808010118

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